The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister
The bureaucracy bible for the city that runs the country.
In a public-service town, Yes Minister isn't comedy — it's a documentary. This complete collection of Jim Hacker's diaries follows a hapless minister and the endlessly cunning Sir Humphrey through every dodge, delay and masterful non-answer that Whitehall — and, let's be honest, Canberra — has ever produced. For the APS lifer who has sat through the real thing, the graduate who is about to, or the relative who describes their job as "complicated", it is the gift that lands with a rueful laugh of recognition. Timeless, quotable and quietly devastating, it belongs on every Canberra bookshelf — ideally within reach of the meeting where someone suggests we set up a working group.
- The complete diaries of the immortal Jim Hacker MP
- The sharpest satire of government ever written
- Painfully, brilliantly familiar to anyone in the public service
- A must-own for the Canberra desk or bookshelf